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Chief Architect X10 Reference Manual

• A variety of check boxes may be avail- set the light source from the symbol’s ori-
able, depending on the selected symbol’s gin. The Light Offset for an existing
Category and Type. symbol can be specified in its Electrical
• The Default Light Offset field is only Service Specification dialog. See “Light
available only for electrical symbols in Data Panel” on page 1097.
the process of being imported or con- A preview of the selected symbol
verted, and is enabled when the Light 5 displays on the left. See “Dialog
option is checked. Enter a distance to off- Preview Panes” on page 42.

Materials Panel
The MATERIALS panel allows you to assign If the selected symbol is in the process of
materials to the symbol’s components and is being imported, bear in mind that .dxf/.dwg
similar to the Materials panel in many files do not include material information, so
specification dialogs. See “Materials Panel” the symbol’s components will not have
on page 1017. materials assigned to them. See “3D
Symbols and Materials” on page 1194.

Sizing Panel

The settings on the SIZING panel allow you to
control the size of a symbol’s bounding box A symbol’s actual size cannot be
and how the symbol behaves when resized. changed in the Symbol Specification
dialog. See “Resizing Objects” on page 257.

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